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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), based in Jeddah, condemned on Wednesday evening the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval of 356 new settlement units in the occupied city of Jerusalem. In a statement, the OIC said this decision constitutes a war crime under international law and United Nations resolutions, particularly UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. The OIC’s General Secretariat warned of the growing danger of continued and escalating violence and terrorism by extremist settler groups in the occupied West Bank, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The organisation called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and take urgent and decisive action to end the culture of impunity, and […]
